Topic: archaeology

From Discovery: Research shows cave bears lived in the same spaces coveted by prehis­toric humans up to 32,000 years ago. The new study on cave bears, which has been accepted for publi­cation in the Journal of Archae­o­logical Science, may also shed light on the age of cave art depicting these enormous animals and why the bears even­tually went extinct. · Go to Cavemen, cave bears battled over turf →

From Wash­ington Post: For decades, the consensus scien­tific opinion has held that anatom­i­cally modern humans first migrated out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, heading north into the eastern Mediter­ranean region and then on to Europe and Asia. But new research released in January 2011 paints a very different picture. Simi­larly iden­ti­fiable humans left Africa as early as 125,000 years ago, it says, and wandered east into the Arabian peninsula, parts of which were then wet and lush. From there, the researchers report in a paper in the journal Science, the people who may well have been our true ancestors later headed north and on into Eurasia. · Go to New research points to earlier human migration out of Africa, 125,000 years ago →